ACC Renegotiated Useless Scheme Within the Last Month

Despite reports that ACC’s health and
safety training programme provided by Business NZ and the
CTU won't be continued, ACC has resigned with the service
providers since providing the Taxpayers’ Union material
which shows it’s a complete waste of money.

The
contracts released by ACC to the Taxpayers’ Union in
December record an ending date of 31 December 2013. Despite
an ACC spokesperson telling media yesterday that ACC decided
late last year to can the programme, the Taxpayers’
Union learned today that the contracts have been extended
until 31 December 2014

“ACC’s known since 2008 that
the training programme is a waste of money, but
has rolled-over the contracts within the last
month."

“Despite the clear evidence of failure, ACC
only changed its tune since the Taxpayers' Union publicly
exposed the rort yesterday.”

“It’s not
the Taxpayers’ Union who labelled the training scheme a
waste of money, it’s ACC’s own experts. They should
scrap it immediately and not wait for the new contracts to
expire.”

The Taxpayers’ Union is also backing the
Minister for ACC’s reported comments that Business NZ and
the CTU should pay the wasted money back to ACC.

“With
such clear evidence that the money did little if anything to
improve workplace safety, we think Business NZ and
the CTU are morally obliged to stop wasting this money and
compensate ACC levy payers,” concludes Mr
Williams.

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